Is brain death not the end yet?
In the USA, they decided to revive a dead human brain
The American biotech company Bioquark plans to prove that brain death is not irreversible and develop technologies to "revive" the main organ of the human body. This is reported by The Daily Mail (Could we soon REVERSE death? 'Reanimation' firm is looking for ways to bring brain-dead people back to life).
The prospects of this idea were outlined by the head of the company Ira Pastor. "Although people are deprived of special opportunities for regeneration of the central nervous system, many species (amphibians, planarians and some fish) can repair and revive parts of their brain and its stem part even after life–threatening injuries," she said.
Pastor and her colleagues launched the ReAnima project to explore the potential of the latest biomedical technologies for "resuscitation" of the brain. Scientists will begin clinical trials involving people who have been officially recognized as dead in the United States and Great Britain, but continue to be maintained in a vegetative state ("living corpses").
Permission has already been obtained for the first stage of clinical trials (Non-randomized, Open-labeled, Interventional, Single Group, Proof of Concept Study With Multi-modality Approach in Cases of Brain Death Due to Traumatic Brain Injury Having Diffuse Axonal Injury – VM). The researchers will work with a group of 15-65-year-old patients who have fallen into a state of brain death due to traumatic brain injury. With the help of peptides, stem cells, lasers and nerve stimulation, scientists will try to revive brain tissues.
The first results are expected in two to three months. The researchers hope to observe (on a tomograph) the symptoms of revival at the border of the upper spinal cord and the lower zone of the brainstem (this area, in particular, is responsible for breathing and heartbeat).
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26.04.2016